Hi, > Rick, Jiri,
> many thanks, I'm trying to get this done; > egrep works good, I was trying to shortcut date comparison thing by > converting to seconds, BUT, hit a snag as my system is set to: > # set | grep LANG > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 check also the LC_* variables: set | grep LC_ > # date --date='20/03/2014' +"%s" > date: invalid date `20/03/2014' > # date --date='03/20/2014' +"%s" > 1395234000 > which I think means assumed format is mm dd yy ? Yes; 1395234000 is 20 Mar 2014. > where should I change it to en_au ? LANG=en_AU.UTF-8; export LANG >> Of course, all of this would be much easier to code in python, perl or >> ruby. > I'll look at that next time, thanks It's probably still worthwhile switching even now — you haven't even started with the ics/vcal generation and so on... Jiri -- Jiří Baum <j...@baum.com.au> Sabik Software Solutions Pty Ltd 0413 183 117 http://www.baum.com.au/sabik -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html